Best way to provide a demo?

I would think it's easiest to upload the course(s) to some webserver and then send out an email with the course URL.

When I'm trying to share courses with co-workers that do not have the software, and I haven't gotten to the point of putting it in our LMS, I host on Google Drive and share the link with those people. This link takes you to the instructions on Mike Taylor's blog. You can also use Articulate Tempshare, but that is temporary (as the name implies ), so your course would need to be uploaded again when the link expires, every ten days. 

We use Articulate Tempshare to have our clients preview eLearning modules. You simply upload your zipped file to the site and it gives you a temporary URL to send out that will expire in 10 days.

Keep in mind, this is not a site that is supported by Articulate, but it is a great resource!

http://tempshare.articulate.com/ 

Amazing!  thanks so much for the quick responses!  

I would create yourselves a small demo website, which can be done for a very small cost, and load your products there to view.

Do not think tempshare is the way to do here.

Use existing infrastructure if you can.

Hi Bruce, I do have a Wordpress site and would love to put my a demo I just created there. Can you tell me how to load the files so that it plays on my website or would it be best to contact my web developer?

Hi Kimberly, the easiest way is to use the Articulate plugin for Wordpress.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/insert-or-embed-articulate-content-into-wordpress/

...as long as your web hosting company is not very stingy with upload quotas - i.e. your zipped output should not exceed the max upload size allowed by your webhost.

Otherwise, the safest-guaranteed-to-work way is to manually move your output folder content over via ftp, then embed your content in an IFRAME using code similar to:

<iframe width="740" height="600" src="/path/to/storyline/output/folder/story.html"></iframe>

Hope this helps,
Alex

Hi Kristin,

First I used Dropbox, now I use S3 service on AWS.

Hi @Kristen,

I have had a lot of success by just using DropBox.

First, I set my output folder to publish to the generic, Public folder in DB. Then, I open the output folder and copy the public link to the story.html file for most instances, or  the story_html5.html file for phones/tablets.

Those links are what I share with demo audiences, and I have not had any access, or quality issues in the 2 years I've used that model. One caveat - this process is completed through a free personal account, and I am not versed in how public folders or sharing would work in a DB for Business environment. Also, I am not aware of how secure or unsecure it might be. I have not had any issues, but the safest route is definitely FTP as mentioned above. Since I don't have access to an FTP, DropBox is my solution.

Hope it helps. Good luck.

As others have stated. Dropbox might be the easiest solution. And it's free!

As others have already stated, I would use Dropbox. Plus it's free!

Thank you so much Nancy & Alex for your help! I will give those a try.

I've been using Google Drive.

There's a bit of extra work to get a shareable link (which I've had to look up each time I've published a course). The steps are listed on Mike's blog (there's a link in Laura's comment).

I tried Dropbox, but I couldn't get it to work. It seems the "Public" folder is not available on new free accounts. If you have an older Dropbox account (or a paid one) then it sounds like Dropbox would be easier.